The poetics of palliation : romantic literary therapy, 1790-1850 /
The Poetics of Palliation argues that Romanticism developed richer literary therapies than its contemporary reception remembers. By reading Romantic writers against Georgian medical ethics, Poetics recovers their models of literature as comfort and sustenance, challenging a health humanities traditi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2019.
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Colección: | Romantic reconfigurations.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The Poetics of Palliation argues that Romanticism developed richer literary therapies than its contemporary reception remembers. By reading Romantic writers against Georgian medical ethics, Poetics recovers their models of literature as comfort and sustenance, challenging a health humanities tradition that sees literary therapy primarily as cure. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781786942838 1786942836 |